Investigating “Missing” Women
Gender, Ghosts, and the Bosnian Peace Process
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6275071 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Laura Mcleod (0000-0001-7424-9106, University of Manchester, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 63 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 668-679 |
| Publication date | 2019-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Studies Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0020-8833 • E-ISSN: 1468-2478 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/isq/sqz027 |
| OpenAlex | W2898157672 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 12 |
| References cited | 33 |
Women usually play a limited role in peace processes, at times because of deliberate efforts to marginalize them. As a result, academic and practitioner knowledge has focused on the absence of female bodies from peace processes. I argue that we can generate knowledge about women and peace processes by exploring both the ways that women are omitted and the enduring effects of their exclusion. I use the 1991–1995 Bosnian peace process, which culminated with the November 1995 Dayton Peace Agreement, to explore how we can find something meaningful at the site of “missing.” Avery Gordon's language of ghosts and haunting allows us to notice how women are made missing from stories of the Bosnian peace process. Ghosts also linger, allowing us to notice how the past of exclusion continues to shape contemporary activism in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Thus, by paying attention to the effects of being (made) missing we can understand how scholars and practitioners produce knowledge about women and gender. Following ghosts highlights that when we find something missing, it matters how it is missing. It is insufficient just to note the absence of women, whether from peace processes or from other political phenomena. Rather, we need to examine the consequences of their absence
Bosnian · Notice · Political science · Politics · Process (computing · Sociology · Gender Politics and Representation · Gender Studies · Gender, Security, and Conflict · Law · Peacebuilding and International Security
Frauenbewegung in Bosnien und Herzegowina
Performances of Memory
Introduction
Elite and Everyday Social Contracts in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Haunting justice
Gender Under Siege. Slow Violence and Antigender Mobilisation in Bosnia and Herzegovina’s Ethnonationalist Landscape
Feminist vernacular security expertise and its aftermath
Troubled Encounters
A Voice at the Table
Indicators and Success Stories
Gender, Justice and Deliberation
Security unbound
Women Building Peace
Beyond Mothers, Monsters, Whores
Ghostly Matters
This Was Not Our War
Trauma and the Memory of Politics
On Collective Memory
Haunted by the Somatic Norm
Bananas, Beaches and Bases
A seat at the table is not enough
Forces for Good? Narratives of Military Masculinity in Peacekeeping Operations
Muscular Interventionism
Back to the future
Muscular humanitarianism
(En)gendered Security? The Complexities of Women's Inclusion in Peace Processes
Militarised violences, basic training, and the myths of asexuality and discipline
A Gender‐Just Peace? Exploring the Post‐Dayton Peace Process in Bosnia
Dayton, Ifor and alliance relations in Bosnia
Hauntology, spectres and phantoms
A Seat at the Table—Is it Enough? Gender, Multiparty Negotiations, and Institutional Design in South Africa and Northern Ireland
Gender and “Peace Work
Comparing Political Institutions
Gender Ghosts in McGarry and O'Leary and Representations of the Conflict in Northern Ireland
We, the Citizens of Ethnopolis
Peace Agreements or Pieces of Paper? The Impact of Unsc Resolution 1325 on Peace Processes and Their Agreements
To settle for a gendered peace? Spaces for feminist grassroots mobilization in Northern Ireland and Bosnia-Herzegovina
The Voice Of The Past
| Unique citing works | 12 |
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| Citations per year | 1,71 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2025 (7) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 12 |